Synopsis
The life story of Nikolaj Ivanovič Vavilov, the prominent Russian botanist and geneticist, who was tortured to death in Stalinist prison. His work is based on the workings of the founder of genetics J.G. Mendel and actually he received his first foreign honorary doctorate in Brno. Contemporary geneticists carry on thanks to Mendel and Vavilov and it is shown in the documentary through the images of modern laboratories, Mendel University and Slovak Gene bank.
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